A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

In Spanish, we have a saying: 'The woman and the frying pan belong in the kitchen.' Ohhhh, I hate it!

Charo

My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Tertullian

out of the frying pan and into the fire

J. R. R. Tolkien

I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.

Eddie Huang

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Miguel de Cervantes

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

Tommy Emmanuel

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Eric Hoffer

The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

Lucian

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

William S. Burroughs

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

Gustave Flaubert

It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.

Cate Tiernan

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

Angela Carter

Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

It was a frying-pan-to-the-face moment for me where I had to get humble and really cherish it. I was really sad when [Numbers] was over. I'll just say that. Really sad.

David Krumholtz

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

Tom Robbins

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